Mindset Shift Doesn’t Follow the Laws of Time
Notes from 6 years of unraveling, re-rooting, and redefining after burning out
April marks my burnout anniversary. 6 years now.
I couldn’t grasp then that I was at the beginning of a long journey of mindset shift.
Breaking myself into pieces and losing all sense of identity was the earthquake I needed to start setting new self-foundations.
Of course, I can say this now with the gift of hindsight.
At the time, I was scared and confused AF.
It’s kinda poetic that this happened in spring in the global north, around Earth Day.
But it wasn’t the kind of spring with flowers blooming and birds singing.
Something new was emerging within, yes, but first, I had to face a huge loss and the decomposition of self.
In these 6 years, after the big death that came with burnout, I’ve experienced many small deaths and rebirths:
- Saying goodbye to being employed and stepping into freelancing
- Leaving business-as-usual and shifting into sustainability and regeneration
- Releasing the need for scientific facts to explain everything, and letting in the mystery of spirituality
- Breaking down beliefs around money and success, and crafting new definitions and relationships with wealth
- Moving away from consulting and into mentoring and coaching
- Leaving behind the nomadic lifestyle to settle in
- Moving from disconnection from my body to tapping into a new, highly intuitive source of wisdom through her
- Letting go of the Judit I identified with in my early 30s, and accepting a Judit in her almost-40s who is in a constant state of emergence
✨ And here comes the magic of the process
Not in this order.
And with several back-and-forths that still happen today.
The days of being scared and confused AF? Not fully gone.
My mindset shift hasn’t been about replacing the ‘old’ with the ‘new’.
It’s been about descending into the territory of roots, where everything is entangled.
It’s a refusal of shallowness in favour of vertical movement.
A commitment to evolve downward and upward, refusing surface-level fixes.
To live in the underground, where binaries dissolve, where categories blur, where paradoxes meet and coexist.
And to spiral back up, again and again, to meet the world as it is.
It’s not that mindset shift takes time.
It’s that mindset shift doesn’t follow the laws of time.
This kind of renaissance time-travels.
It demands depth.
It mocks every tidy idea you had about solutions and progress.
It frustrates and annoys me every day.
And I wouldn’t have it any other way because, believe me, I’m being and doing the most whole and authentic version of myself I can be today.
How wild would it be if we were all walking the Earth like this?
If this makes your cells fizz with recognition, and you’re feeling called to explore a path like this for yourself, reach out.
Supporting fellow humans through seasons of change is why I came into the world.